"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."
Read quote
6 likes
Nature quotes
Nature
3.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Nature
Browse quotes that often appear alongside nature — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Nature quotes (page 58 of 183)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature."
Read quote
6 likes
"Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."
Read quote
6 likes
"Art is the child of Nature."
Read quote
6 likes
"All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves."
Read quote
6 likes
"The natural alone is permanent."
Read quote
6 likes
"No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,--the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom."
Read quote
6 likes
"Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning."
Read quote
6 likes
"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."
Read quote
6 likes
"Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train."
Read quote
6 likes
"Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with."
Read quote
6 likes
"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
Read quote
6 likes
"Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root]."
Read quote
6 likes
"All is born of water; all is sustained by water."
Read quote
6 likes
"The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave."
Read quote
6 likes
"Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms."
Read quote
6 likes
"Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page."
Read quote
6 likes
"For the nature of women is closely allied to art"
Read quote
6 likes
"The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment."
Read quote
6 likes
"Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all."
Read quote
6 likes